Planned Parenthood Official Testifies in Favor of Infanticide

Last week, a Florida Planned Parenthood lobbyist publicly endorsed infanticide. It is the logical outcome of abortion on demand for the full nine months of pregnancy — the ability to decide whether the baby who survives an abortion attempt should live or die.

The lobbyist’s comments came at an exchange with a Florida legislator at a committee hearing on a bill which would provide medical care and legal protection for infants born alive after a failed abortion.

“So, um, it is just really hard for me to even ask you this question because I’m almost in disbelief,” said Rep. Jim Boyd to the Planned Parenthood lobbyist. “If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?”

“We believe that any decision that’s made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician,” said Planned Parenthood lobbyist Alisa Snow.

Essentially, Planned Parenthood believes that the abortion “right” is so paramount, that it gives the woman the right to a dead baby.

If you think promotion of infanticide is just an isolated instance, think again. Planned Parenthood has prominent allies that flirt with infanticide. Then Senator Russ Feingold, in responding to direct questioning during debate on a federal partial-birth abortion ban about a baby born alive in a botched abortion, said pretty much what Snow said at the hearing. When President Obama was a State Senator in Illinois, he blocked passage of and voted numerous times against a bill similar to the Florida legislation.

And so the culture of death marches on to its logical conclusion — that vulnerable human life can be protected only when those closest to the person decide his/her life is worth saving.

Barbara Lyons